pristine svn-base file missing

Question

I'm trying to svn update my SVN working copy with TortoiseSVN but the update fails, asking to perform the clean up first.

However, the svn cleanup fails too stating that a \.svn\pristine\20\20long-namecbf.svn-base file cannot be found.

I've already tried to release the lock but this does not work either.

Any idea how should I proceed?

Answer 1

This problem:

cannot find the file .svn\pristine\24\24fd530d4bd82341fb514ab912c9e10adbc4ad89.svn-base

I copied a svn-base from other file and renamed this with 24fd530d4bd82341fb514ab912c9e10adbc4ad89.svn-base. And perform a clean up operation. After that I met another file missing. Using the same way, and at last I fixed this problem.

From a Windows command line with SilkSVN installed:

cd project directory svn status 

This will generate an error. Select and copy the directory and filename text then paste:

echo > .svn\pristine\<paste> 

For example:

echo > 24\24fd530d4bd82341fb514ab912c9e10adbc4ad89.svn-base 

With this knowledge in hand, it would be reasonably trivial to write a batch file that can fix these problems automatically for everyone. The svn command will generate an %ERRORLEVEL% value that can be checked for failure.

Answer 2

I solved this by

1. Creating an empty file /workingdirectory/.svn/pristine/da/da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601800afd80009.svn-base

2. Run svn cleanup